If you're into the occult, you can also become a saucerer and put a Hex on people.
Rust has a really steep learning curve apparently. You might like Valheim better.
This one had me thinking really hard, good one.
Valheim!? The whole reason one picks Rust is to avoid the 'grind
There's a real classic called Binary that's even harder. There's even a metagame, "Bughunt", where you get a fly swatter and travel down endless corridors of tubes searching for bugs before they land. Urban legend is there's a game that is the most perfect grind ever, called Unary. It's basically the Platonic Ideal of Grind.